300,000 babies stolen from their parents - and sold for adoption: Haunting
BBC documentary exposes 50-year scandal of baby trafficking by the Catholic
church in Spain

Up to 300,000 Spanish babies were
stolen from their parents and sold for adoption over a period of five
decades, a new investigation reveals.

The
children were trafficked by a secret network of doctors, nurses,
priests and nuns in a widespread practice that began during General
Franco’s dictatorship and continued until the early Nineties.

Hundreds
of families who had babies taken from Spanish hospitals are now
battling for an official government investigation into the scandal.

Several mothers say they were told their first-born children had died during or soon after they gave birth.

Identity crisis: Randy Ryder as a baby being cradled in a Malaga hospital in 1971 by the woman who bought him

But the women, often young and unmarried, were told they could not see the body of the infant or attend their burial.

In
reality, the babies were sold to childless couples whose devout beliefs
and financial security meant that they were seen as more appropriate
parents.

Official documents were forged so the adoptive parents’ names were on the infants’ birth certificates.

In
many cases it is believed they were unaware that the child they
received had been stolen, as they were usually told the birth mother had
given them up. Journalist Katya Adler, who has investigated the scandal, says: ‘The situation is incredibly sad for thousands of people.

‘There
are men and women across Spain whose lives have been turned upside-down
by discovering the people they thought were their parents actually
bought them for cash. There are also many mothers who have maintained
for years that their babies did not die – and were labelled “hysterical”
– but are now discovering that their child has probably been alive and
brought up by somebody else all this time.’

Reunited: Randy Ryder with Manoli Pagador, who believes she may be his real mother

Experts believe the cases may account
for up to 15 per cent of the total adoptions that took place in Spain
between 1960 and 1989.

It
began as a system for taking children away from families deemed
politically dangerous to the regime of General Franco, which began in
1939. The system continued after the dictator’s death in 1975 as the
Catholic church continued to retain a powerful influence on public life,
particularly in social services.

It was not until 1987 that the Spanish government, instead of hospitals, began to regulate adoptions.

The scandal came to light after two men, Antonio Barroso and Juan Luis Moreno, discovered they had been stolen as babies.

Mr
Moreno’s ‘father’ confessed on his deathbed to having bought him as a
baby from a priest in Zaragoza in northern Spain. He told his son he had
been accompanied on the trip by Mr Barroso’s parents, who bought
Antonio at the same time for 200,000 pesetas – a huge sum at the time.

‘That
was the price of an apartment back then,’ Mr Barroso said. ‘My parents
paid it in instalments over the course of ten years because they did not
have enough money.’

Bought for cash: Journalist Katya Adler with Juan Luis Moreno, who was sold as a baby

DNA tests have proved that the
couple who brought up Mr Barroso were not his biological parents and the
nun who sold him has admitted to doing so.

When
the pair made their case public, it prompted mothers all over the
country to come forward with their own experiences of being told their
babies had died, but never believing it. One such woman was Manoli
Pagador, who has begun searching for her son. A
BBC documentary, This World: Spain’s Stolen Babies, follows her efforts
to discover if he is Randy Ryder, a stolen baby who was brought up in
Texas and is now aged 40.

In
some cases, babies’ graves have been exhumed, revealing bones that
belong to adults or animals. Some of the graves contained nothing at
all.

The BBC
documentary features an interview with an 89-year-old woman named Ines
Perez, who admitted that a priest encouraged her to fake a pregnancy so
she could be given a baby girl due to be born at Madrid’s San Ramon
clinic in 1969. ‘The priest gave me padding to wear on my stomach,’ she
says.

It is claimed that the San Ramon clinic was one of the major centres for the practice. Many
mothers who gave birth there claim that when they asked to see their
child after being told it had died, they were shown a baby’s corpse that
appeared to be freezing cold.

The BBC programme shows photographs taken in the Eighties of a dead baby kept in a freezer, allegedly to show grieving mothers.

Despite
hundreds of families of babies who disappeared in Spanish hospitals
calling on the government to open an investigation into the scandal, no
nationally co-ordinated probe has taken place.

As
a result of amnesty laws passed after Franco’s death, crimes that took
place during his regime are usually not examined. Instead, regional
prosecutors across the country are investigating each story on a
case-by-case basis, with 900 currently under review. But Ms Adler says: ‘There is very little political will to get to the bottom of the situation.’

There
are believed to be thousands more cases that will never come to light
because the stolen children fear their adoptive parents will be seen as
criminals.

Many of the
families of stolen babies have taken DNA tests in the hope of
eventually being matched with their children. Some matches have already
been made but, without a nationally co-ordinated database, reuniting
lost relatives will be a very difficult process.

Catholic church stole 300.000 babies in Spain

Up to 300,000 Spanish babies were stolen from their parents and sold for adoption by Roman Catholic institutions.

Roman Catholic nurses in Spain, were involved in child trafficking. They stole babies right from the womb of their mothers.

A new BBC documentary reveals baby trafficking in the Roman Catholic
Church in Spain. The children were trafficked by a secret network of
doctors, nurses, priests and nuns in a widespread practice that began
during General Franco’s dictatorship and continued until the early
Nineties.

Hundreds of families who had babies taken from Spanish hospitals are
now battling for an official government investigation into the scandal.

Several mothers say they were told their first-born children had died during or soon after they gave birth.
But the women, often young and unmarried, were told they could not
see the body of the infant or attend their burial. In reality, the
babies were sold to childless couples whose devout beliefs and financial
security meant that they were seen as more appropriate parents.

Official documents were forged so the adoptive parents’ names were on the infants’ birth certificates.
In many cases it is believed they were unaware that the child they
received had been stolen, as they were usually told the birth mother had
given them up.
Journalist Katya Adler, who has investigated the scandal, says: ‘

The situation is incredibly sad for thousands of
people. There are men and women across Spain whose lives have been
turned upside-down by discovering the people they thought were their
parents actually bought them for cash. There are also many mothers who
have maintained for years that their babies did not die – and were
labelled “hysterical” – but are now discovering that their child has
probably been alive and brought up by somebody else all this time.’

Experts believe the cases may account for up to 15 per cent of the
total adoptions that took place in Spain between 1960 and 1989.

It began as a system for taking children away from families deemed
politically dangerous to the regime of General Franco, which began in
1939.

The system continued after the dictator’s death in 1975 as the
Catholic church continued to retain a powerful influence on public life,
particularly in social services.

It was not until 1987 that the Spanish government, instead of hospitals, began to regulate adoptions.

For us who claim the Roman Catholic Church is the whore of Babylon,
this is not a shocking revelation. We have exposed the great prostitute
over many years. But our warnings have fallen for deaf ears among most
of the Vatican faithful.

Maybe this report can make a difference?
I do not think so.
When your God is the father of all lies, it does not matter what kind
of corpses and skeletons that might call out of your own cup board. You
take please in your life in sin and indulgences, and submit to the
priesthood of Satan.

If they rape your own son, you will put up a brave face, find some
excuses. You will not admit that you are a supporter of the very “Church of anti-Christ”, an organizations that is a pit of sin, and a hell bound gathering of deceived people and deceased hypocrites.
The spirit of death reigns in your hearts and minds.

If you want to live, take the distasteful idols off your family altar, and burn them in the fire.
Than go down on your knees, and beg Jesus to release you from all the
curses that has passed down through the generation, and made you too a
son of Hell.

Tell your priest to leave your house. Tell him never to set his foot there, ever again.
Do it. Do it today.

If you seek Him with a humble heart and knock on His door, the door
will be opened for you. Now, your heart and mind will change. Your
spiritual eyes will be opened. Washed by the blood of the Lamb of God,
you will be accepted in the Kingdom of Heaven. Amen.